I found if you sop import packed disk VDBs it happily does the right thing and you get instances referencing the original .vdb files, no extra caching required… so if you’ve got packed (non-disk) VDBs as .bgeo you should be able to turn that into a packed disk equivalent: – unpack 1 prim with Apply Transform disabled to get the original VDB – save it as a .vdb, load it back in as a packed disk with a File SOP – use Pack Inject to turn the packed VDB setup into packed disk VDBs – change or delete the path attrib, because packed disks have the file path in there and LOPs will use it to create a transform hierarchy from your on-disk folder structure which is just insanely confusing the first time you see it lmao
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